When Shinken is installed, the discovery script shinken-discovery can help you start your new monitoring tool and integrate a large number of hosts. This does not replace extracting data from an authoritative CMDB/IT reference for provisioning known hosts. It can be used to supplement the data from the authoritative references.

At this time, two “discovery” modules are available:

Network based discovery using nmap

VMware based discovery, using the check_esx3.pl script communicating with a vCenter installation.

It is suggested to execute both discovery modules in one pass, because one module can use data from the other.